On this guide you will read about a simple way to enable Apache’s TLS connections on your web server. Aside from useful it secures the connection from the client to the server and prevents unwanted tinkering. Anyone on the need of SSL (nowadays TLS) will benefit from this article but particularly will do those in […]
How to enable SSL on Apache on FreeBSD
How to enable log rotation on FreeBSD
This is a very short simple entry but it may help you. As many others you may be running a web server, or any other service that creates some logging information. Enable log rotation on FreeBSD will keep those log files in a manageable size (at least more readable) and they won’t grow and expand […]
How to install the ELK stack on CentOS 8
The ELK stack stands for Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. These three pieces of software are very useful since each brings a powerful capability that in combination is just great to use. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash can process data from multiple sources. Kibana allows to visualize data in a graphic manner. These […]
Linux VS open source UNIX
Linux is the mainstream UNIX-like platform of choice in the modern world. There are valid open source code base alternatives from which many businesses have benefited from. This is a different approach on both.
How to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown on a Lenovo T430s laptop with Ubuntu
As recently announced in a previous article I wanted to write a couple of guides on how to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in GNU/Linux and UNIX environments. It is always a good and I hope a standard practice to have your systems patched and if they aren’t for whatever the reason (that legacy thing […]
The Original Sin
Disclaimer: What you are about to read may contain inaccuracies. Feel free to discuss them somewhere else. This is also my opinion and as such it may change through time, maybe tomorrow, next month, next year, next decade or never. I do also make very few reviews (if any) of what I write here so […]
How to import iocage jails to Bastille on FreeBSD 13
Being a fan and heavy user of FreeBSD jails, I’ve been using iocage for years now. However, iocage is not the only tool capable of making abstractions on top of the jail infrastructure in FreeBSD to make it easier to manage in a not just easier way, but quicker, centralized manner. Bastille is the other […]
How to improve Apache HTTP performance on FreeBSD
There are some nice articles on the internet telling you how to improve your Apache HTTP server’s performance. I did my bit on FreeBSD land. While turning on a different MPM than the prefork default one increases Apache HTTP performance by a lot, it is not the only thing one may do. For example if […]
How to setup MariaDB master-slave replication on FreeBSD
Having all the data in just one server is not the best idea. Especially when talking about a database server. Spreading information in several boxes is a good measure to prevent data loss but also for performance. A MySQL/MariaDB master-slave replication scheme is often used as a good solution for both, data redundancy and speed. […]
Why FreeBSD
In the following lines you will find a brief but sort of complete explanation about what is FreeBSD and why FreeBSD might be of your interest. If you are already a Mac or Linux user this could be more relevant for you than you would imagine. Enjoy. FreeBSD is an operating system, a unix-like operating […]